A survey of 3,450 systems running in production environments found that virtual environments that use the Windows operating system suffer from I/O inefficiencies that tax workloads and results in sluggish performance.

The real prize from the EMC Dell deal is the associated purchase of VMware, Inc. Analysts from all over the globe predict everything from utter VMware destruction to VMware as a cash-producing Wunderkind. They're all wrong.

According to a recent report by Transparency Market Research*, the Global WaaS market is valued at US$ 7.47 billion in 2014 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.1 percent from 2015 to 2022. If numbers don't lie, then WaaS is something to talk about.